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  What happens after one is cremated? Why only go for cremations? What is the path to salvation? Many questions wander around the minds of those who visit or hear about the spaces of death. For the curious and the lost, a repository of Vedic and scientific knowledge that gives answers in spirituality and ecological sciences. A far cry from the programme of the crematorium, the space is meant to be isolated and introverted to disconnect the user from the sites happenings, and while providing a safe haven. *** Read Utsav's Design Dissertation titled 'Dignity in Death: A crematorium design thesis', click the link here . Watch the Dissertation jury presentation video here .  Watch the final design presentation here . 

  THE CREMATION SPACE When a diya gets lit, the hand instinctively protects it from the wind. Similarly, the cremation service is the last service to their loved one, where the person takes the responsibility of conducting the required rituals, cremating the body wholly and scattering the ashes in a holy water body. The cremation space allows these activities to be held while allowing for massive congregations around the deceased. The walls around it, like arms protecting the flame and the people in it from the elements outside. *** Read Utsav's Design Dissertation titled 'Dignity in Death: A crematorium design thesis', click the link  here . Watch the Dissertation jury presentation video  here .  Watch the final design presentation  here . 

As torrential rain begins to envelop the city, people of Vrindavan seek the help of Krishna to save their families and belongings. Krishna responds by lifting Govardhan lift atop his little finger and providing every villager and animal a place under it for seven consecutive days. The temple complex was envisaged as a memorial of the story where elements from the feat were personified as the form of the temple complex. God’s presence in the times of doubt and fear is comforting. For the group of people arriving into the crematorium, just after suffering the loss of their loved one, being under the watchful eyes of the Almighty stills a nature of being looked after. The massing had to be light to be fitting of the puranic proportions. Wooden joists were stacked atop one another, with each subsequent course corbelled to give the impression of the hill (construction technique reference, Yusuhara Wooden bridge museum, Kengo Kuma and Associates). The central support houses the idol and ...